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While many people (and applications) choose bright themes for their desktop environments, my eyes sometimes feel very strained after a long day work on such a bright theme. The reason is simple: my eyes are capturing lots of light for an extended period of time, and this causes a lot of fatigueness.

After a while, I tried working on darker themes and it in fact solved most of my problems. So I usually switch between bright and dark themes depending on how much work I’m going to do.

Geany with the dark theme

This being said, I also use Geany Integrated Development Environment (IDE) often when I need to use mouse frequently. However, the original Geany comes only with a bright theme. I looked around and there was one other project creating a dark scheme for geany which I found interesting. However, it didn’t supported the programming languages and file-types I usually use. Also, its color theme was not matching my dark theme.

So I made a new dark theme for Geany which you can find it here. It supports the following file-types:

• C files
• Configuration files (.conf)
• C++ files
• Cascading Style Sheet files
• HTML files
• Java files
• JavaScript files
• LaTeX files
• Make files
• PHP files
• Python files
• XML files
• Any other file not supported by Geany (.common)

Of course this set of file-types is not complete compared to what Geany already supports, but these were the ones I frequently use. So if you need other file-types, or in general have any comment or feedback, please leave a comment and I will try to see what I can do about it.

Download:

You can download the it from here:

• Download version 0.1: geany-dark-theme-0.1.tar.gz

Installation:

Just copy the content of the tar file to Geany’s directory inside your home path at: /home/YourUserName/.geany/filedefs/ .

Note that the filetypes.common included in this package, will have an effect on how other file-types which are not supported by this package will be rendered. If this is annoying for your work, simply delete or rename it to something else to regain the original look of Geany for other files.

Uninstallation: Simply delete files from your /home/YourUserName/.geany/filedefs/ to restore the original Geany theme. (Thanks for Ben for suggesting this.)

Screenshots:

Editing a Python file, click for larger version.

Editing a C++ file.

License:

The license is the same as Geany’s (GPL).